United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 6
[Obsolete.]
Chap. Ⅵ.—An Act making provision for the further accommodation of the household of the President of the United States.
$14,000 granted to the President for his household.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the third day of March next, the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered, to cause to be sold, such articles furnished by the United States, for the President’s household, as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, and that the proceeds of such sale, and so much of a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars in addition thereto, out of the proceeds of the duties on imports and tonnage which may accrue during the present year, as the President of the United States may judge necessary, be, and hereby are appropriated for the accommodation of the household of the President, to be laid out and expended for such articles of furniture as he shall direct.
Approved, March 2, 1797.